I'm at home right now (I go to college in the mountains lol) - visiting and re-experiencing the love of wealth and fashionable civilization. My loving father gave me his credit card and told me to go shopping. I found myself at Louis Vuitton, where I decided I absolutely *needed* a cles (yes, I know, I've owned and sold at least 4 in my short life span, deeming them inevitably useless). I chose my favorite line, which of course is the plain ole' monogram. As we were there, my SA told us that there was a new manager, and she'd recalled Steve's (Steve = my boyfriend) problem with his wallet peeling. The old manager sent it for repair (it was 6 months old), and when it came back the same thing happened again, this time the sides peeling to reveal the actual strings beneath the glaze. By this time we'd moved away to college, a good 2 hours away from the nearest luxury mall. We called Louis Vuitton to let them know, and they said they would take it for repair, AGAIN. Steve was completely against the idea - I mean, why should you have to send a wallet to be repaired (which takes 2 months to get back) TWICE in a year after paying $300.00+??? Since this we had not been back to Louis Vuitton. Aaaanyway, so we decided since we were back in town to stop by Louis Vuitton (I pushed a little), which had just been remodeled so it's twice as big as it had been the previous time we'd visited. While I was purchasing the cles I showed my SA Steve's wallet and how the peeling problem had further worsened. I also showed her my koala, which was begining to have the same problem: peeling along the sides. So the manager comes over and looks at our wallets - she looks at Steves and says the damage is from WATER and that Steve must be "really hard on his wallet"!!!!!!! WTF? It's a wallet - it's a year old, it's been for repair already once - it goes in his damn pocket - why would there be WATER in his pocket??? It's obviously a quality control issue! But then get this - she looks at my (koala) wallet, and says the peeling on MINE is a DEFECT, and gives me a brand new one!!!!! So Steve is mortified and furious, he walks out, as they're exchanging my koala wallet (which is 8 months old) and buying my cles. I understand I guess, but he's really mad - as in he's not really speaking to me. =( I guess I understand, he's not mad at me - he's just mad I got a new wallet, when my peeling was not even CLOSE to as bad as his is. I just don't get Louis Vuitton - they're quality control is so back and forth, it really sucks. Now he says he refuses to ever buy anything from there again. This is bad. :shame:
On the plus side, my old koala was made in the USA - this one is made in France! I know, it shouldn't matter - a factory is a factory - but I prefer foreign-made goods
also, my cles is made in Spain! My other 2 monogram cles were all made in the USA - so I'm happy about that 
but poor Steve 
On the plus side, my old koala was made in the USA - this one is made in France! I know, it shouldn't matter - a factory is a factory - but I prefer foreign-made goods
also, my cles is made in Spain! My other 2 monogram cles were all made in the USA - so I'm happy about that but poor Steve 
